D&D (2024) Lycanthropes in the MM

[Belen]

That is not true. Silvered weapons are move effective, you have to look in the PHB, not the MM IIRC. Now the effectiveness is greatly reduced, but they are still more effective.

Edit: it is in the DMG

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This is still a joke.

A silvered weapon has a 5% chance to be useful in a fight against a were creature that is in hybrid or animal form.

Werewolves are also a joke in 5.5.

 

[Yaarel]

I was expecting them to get the regeneration trait that late-stage OG 5e lycanthropes have had, but no! They've got nothing!

I am ok with lack of regeneration. (For werewolf player characters, they lacked the regeneration too. The essential traits, which are moreorless the same thing as an alternate form as a normal wolf, worked well enough as a feat. So spending the feat, meant a nonplayer character became a playable character with the flavor of being able to regain their humanity.)

Dont forget, the DM can tweak the stats. I am interested in seeing the regeneration on the night of a full moon, but not during the rest of the month. There are probably other ways to stat this concept.

Firstly, there is no lycanthropes section, and no sidebar on how to handle PCs as lycanthropes. The individual monsters are listed alphabetically in the book, and since they all start with "were-", they are all together in one place.

I prefer this. I wish everything in the Monster Manual had names that self-sorted alphabetically.

Dragon Blue
Dragon Gold
Dragon Red
Dragon Sapphire

Fungal Gas Spore
Fungal Gulthias Blight
Fungal Shrieker
Fungal Violet
Fungal Violet Necrohulk

Humanoid Cultist
Humanoid Cultist Hierophant
Humanoid Knight
Humanoid Knight Questor
Humanoid Mage
Humanoid Mage Apprentice
Humanoid Mage Archon
Humanoid Pirate
Humanoid Pirate Admiral

etcetera.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

This is still a joke.

A silvered weapon has a 5% chance to be useful in a fight against a were creature that is in hybrid or animal form.

Werewolves are also a joke in 5.5.

The funny thing is, for us it works perfectly with our house rules (only critical hits a “real” strikes). Though we do use natural 20 as a critical hit.

 

[wizard71]

A player received a silvered sword during the game this weekend and he was all "I'll hang onto it incase we run across were-beasts".

He was straight shocked to find it Silver means nothing to 5.5 Were monsters.

"But you can BUY a Silvered weapon in the PHB! Why even do that?"

I made sure that if they come across a werewolf would allow him extra damage or something with the silvered sword.

Still, absolutely ridiculous that WotC took that out.

Edit: And thats what I get for going off half cocked. Apparently Silver does do something, just not mentioned in the monster text.

Yep, in order to not hurt the fragile ego’s of martial characters silver weapons do more damage 5-10% of the time. Way to drop the ball WOTC. Martial characters should be ashamed of themselves.